On 8/2/2017 10:39 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-08-02 10:06 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>> The problem in the past is "indistinguishable" from the real thing.
>> Most of the substitutes are really crappy in texture and/or taste.
>> Even where meat is used instead of pork. Turkey bacon is horrid.
>
> My nephew and his wife are vegetarian and were always pushing their
> veggie burgers and veggie dogs, claiming they are just like meat. Well,
> they aren't just like meat. Meat is just like meat.
>
Oy! Morningstar Farms, Boca burgers. If vegetarians want to imagine
these products are just like meat, fine. They aren't. (Yes, I've tried
them.) They're filled with chemicals and oh boy, don't you dare be on
the gluten free bandwagon.

I have to wonder why vegetarians keep trying create meat-like products.
Could it be they're craving meat?

>> If this stuff is truly good tasting, I can see a lot of uses for it in
>> place of bacon but I'm not sure it can 100% replace it.
>
> There are various brands of vegetable based bacon bits. The are
> basically an artificially flavoured soy product with a crisp texture,
> not even suitable for a salad topping.

Yeah, BacO's or some such nonsense. Soy based crispy things that are
allegedly just like bacon bits! No, they're not.

Jill